Paris-based Dreamjet SAS wants to start all-business-class flights between Paris and New York, unwittingly finding itself held up as a test case for competition policy in one of the world’s busiest air-travel markets.

The main U.S. pilot union, Air Line Pilots Association International, or ALPA, on Friday said it backed Dreamjet’s effort to win approval from U.S. regulators. Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, which planned to launch flights from London and Scandinavia in April via a new Ireland-based subsidiary, earlier this week offered its own backing for Dreamjet. More on this after the jump… Read More »

LONDON–Millard “Mickey” Drexler is more worried about the candy than the store.

“They’re gonna put their hands in there?” he asks of the glass jars and bowls of sugared treats being filled ahead of the opening of J.Crew Group Inc.’s first international flagship store. “Scoops, there’ll be scoops,” one of his multitude staff reassures him.

Mr. Drexler, chief executive of the closely held U.S. clothing chain, is in London to bring his particular brand of fervor and attention to detail to a 17,000-square-foot store on trendy Regent Street. J.Crew has a smaller men’s store in London that opened in October and a separate women’s store also opening Friday, but the store opening Friday is its first full-scale location outside North America. The company has a total of 442 stores in the U.S. and Canada, including 65 under its Madewell brand and 121 factory outlets.

London’s Kensington district, home to the $23 million American Airlines house.

Back in December 2011, reporters searching through the American Airlines bankruptcy filing found one pretty delicious detail: the struggling carrier ows a luxury home, for the use of its executives, on one of London’s wealthiest streets.